lol I'm in the USA and I agree w/you oddly enough. I'm not
   worried though. I remember when the school bombings seemed to be
   a 'thing' in the US. Now, living here, *I knew* that these were
   flukes; statistically insignificant events.

   But I knew people who wouldn't even COME to the USA because,
   from overseas, it appeared that the USA had school bombings
   everywhere. I had to laugh. Media really knows how to make the
   world appear so dramatic. But reality is typically far more
   boring than TV. It's also why I don't get excited about 'stuff
   from the middle east' - the BBC is the worst offender here but
   we do it in the USA as well.

   I know people who live in these "war torn areas" and of course,
   it's nothing like the news. People wake up, go to work, send
   their kids to school and life is normal except for certain parts
   of town that you "just don't go to".

   Same everywhere just about.

   Of course growing up, I thought Northern Ireland was just one
   big bombed crater. But no, just bad neighborhoods in otherwise
   nice cities.